ElkRiverHarmonicas
863 posts
Apr 15, 2012
9:47 PM
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Adam's got a Phd in it. it's interesting what all different backgrounds we have.... But Adam's not the only well known Ivy leaguer in the harmonica world.
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"Also, drinking homemade beer." - David Payne
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BronzeWailer
460 posts
Apr 15, 2012
11:08 PM
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Thanks Laurent: Condoms are a "countable" noun -- that is, one condom, two condoms, three condoms, Chuck Norris territory, but drivel is not. Therefore, you should have said "some more" drivel. Thanks for your attention. :)
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nacoran
5549 posts
Apr 15, 2012
11:21 PM
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I don't like to picture Ryan in a Ranger uniform. I grew up an Astros fan. Sure, he looked a little less intimidating with a giant rainbow vomited on his shirt, but I was an Astros fan! They always made a race of it, but always fell a little short. The team was built around pitching and speed. Then they moved to Enron and they became just another club built around the long ball. As a kid I used to emulate Ryan's high kick when pitching and Jose Cruz's high kick when batting. (And Ralph Machio's high kick when pretending to be a karate expert. It was this whole kick I was on.)
I eventually started following the Yankees in the A.L., before they got good again. I haven't been able to track down the box score, but I swear I saw Randy Velarde go 0-5 with 5 strikeouts and three errors. I haven't watched nearly as much baseball since Bernie Williams retired.
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Greyowlphotoart
1063 posts
Apr 15, 2012
11:44 PM
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A lot of good contributions so far. So what have we learnt so far about what makes a good forum?
Here are some of my favourites
Staying sober
Wearing clean togas
No pissing contests (if you do get involved in one don't take on Frank)
A tolerance of Saints & Sinners
Interesting username handles: Lumpywafflesquirt is the benchmark
No subforums
A love of Cats
Locking all threads during Full moon
lurkers,
serial posters,
innovators,
traditionalists
in-betweeners
If you can put your post to rhyme that would be fine
Excel at shameless self-promotion
Don't drink Catnip
Dig Chuck Norris
A Degree in English is desirable but not mandatory
If you're going to wear Rattlesnake skins as condoms double up at the very least
Nitpick
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum
And finally, if you find yourself getting cross on the forum In the words of Monty Python:-
Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say:
Some things in life are bad.
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble. Give a whistle.
And this'll help things turn out for the best. And...
Always look on the bright side of life.
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BronzeWailer
461 posts
Apr 16, 2012
12:18 AM
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Grey Owl: Just rewatched the DVD the other day. Unlike me, it hasn't really aged at all. :)
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Greyowlphotoart
1065 posts
Apr 16, 2012
12:32 AM
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@ Bronzewailer. Yes you can watch classic python again and again and it still makes you laugh!
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kudzurunner
3191 posts
Apr 16, 2012
4:49 AM
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@ElkRiver: No, I'm definitely not. Bonnie Raitt, Stanley Jordan (jazz guitarist) and our own scojo also qualify.
The term "Ivy Leaguer" tends to call up an image of a well-bred Joe College in khakis and a polo shirt. That was not me. I was a half-Jewish mutt from a small blue-collar town in the Hudson River Valley, son of an artist/environmentalist who had little income and a mother who taught nutrition education and fought the educational establishment. I was a smart kid with a lot of curiosity and a hell of a lot of energy. I wasn't part of any crowd. I was the townie in my local day school, a drug-soaked place where rich kids and middle-class kids played a lot of soccer and did a lot of skiing. When somebody gave me a pair of hand-me-down skis, I got to go skiing. I enjoyed school work and was very good on standardized exams. I filled out my own application for Princeton, wrote it in longhand, including the essay. Neither my parents nor any guidance counselor gave me any help on the thing. I filled it out and sent it in. And I got in. When I showed up on campus, I had no idea what a preppie was. I'd literally never heard the word. When I discovered what they were--the silver-spoon-in-the=mouth crowd, from Andover and Exeter and Miss Porter's School--I couldn't believe it. I'd never met anybody like that. Some people who have the blues also happen to have the kind of brains that let them do well in school and write a good sentence. That's me. I trust that nobody is foolish enough to think that they can tell a book--and this book, in particular--by its cover. Let's just say that the four years I spent playing harmonica on the streets of Harlem wasn't part of an approved career path--except for somebody determined to play this music. Scratch any competent blues musician and you'll find some version of that apprenticeship process. It's what counts, finally.
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laurent2015
120 posts
Apr 16, 2012
5:39 AM
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Thanks Bronze for your spelling's help!
It comes a little late, but with this forum's dynamism and time difference, I get sometimes sleepy.
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BronzeWailer
462 posts
Apr 16, 2012
3:26 PM
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@laurent2015. No worries. Your English is fine. Message getting through loud and clear...
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